You don't create your mission in life - you detect it.

A life of short duration...could be so rich in joy and love that it could contain more meaning than a life lasting eighty years.

I try to do everything as soon as possible, and not at the last moment. This ensures that, when I am overburdened with work, I will not face the added pressure of knowing that something is still to be done.

Ultimate freedom is a man's right to choose his attitude.

Since Auschwitz we know what man is capable of. And since Hiroshima we know what is at stake.

Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather he must recognize that it is he who is asked.

Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.